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Reversing the psychiatric gaze

Nineteenth-century psychiatrists were keen to categorise their patients’ illnesses reductively – by their physical appearance. But we can see a far more complex picture of mental distress, revealed by those patients able to express their inner worlds in art.

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Daniel Regan on using photography to manage emotions

Artist Daniel Regan manages his emotions and stays grounded through photography, allowing him to engage in the world around him.

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Picturing mental health

Ron Hampshire created artworks while resident at Netherne psychiatric hospital. What can we learn from them?

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The painter, the psychiatrist and a fashion for hysteria

A dramatic painting brings a famous event in medical history alive. But it also tells a tale about the health preoccupations of the time.

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  • Psychiatric hospital (Het dol huys), Amsterdam, Netherlands. Etching, 17th century.
  • Hospitals and asylums of the world. Vols. 1-2, [Asylums] / by Henry C. Burdett.
  • Hospitals and asylums of the world. Vols. 1-2, [Asylums] / by Henry C. Burdett.
  • High Royds Hospital, Menston, Ilkley, Yorkshire: a corridor. Pencil drawing by Paul Digby, 2003-2004.
  • High Royds Hospital, Menston, Ilkley, Yorkshire: a corridor. Pencil drawing by Paul Digby, 2003-2004.
  • Lunacy in many lands : being an introduction to the reports on the lunatic asylums of various countries, visited in 1882-5 / by G.A. Tucker, and presented by him to the government of New South Wales, Australia.
  • St. Ann Heath Lunatic Asylum, Virginia Water, Windsor. Wood engraving by D.R. Warry, 1872, after Crossland, Salomans, & Jones.
  • Lunacy in many lands : being an introduction to the reports on the lunatic asylums of various countries, visited in 1882-5 / by G.A. Tucker, and presented by him to the government of New South Wales, Australia.
  • Milnholm (?) Asylum: nine members of staff. Photograph, July 1862.
  • Friern Hospital, Friern Barnet: patients. Photographs, 1890-1910.
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